Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republic of Cyprus, providing a pretext for the Turkish generals to proceed with their occupation of northern Cyprus, speeded the disintegration of the junta's power base in the army. As the Pike report showed, these activities were closely monitored by Kissinger and the Pentagon, who failed to lift a finger to prevent them despite the regular contacts between Ioannides and the CIA in Athens. The innocent blood that flowed abundantly in Greece and Cyprus brought about the restoration of democracy to its birthplace. Cyprus is, of course, still bleeding, with no end to its martyrdom in sight...
...more days, storekeepers and their customers will begin the annual countdown of the number of shopping days left before Christmas. Counting along with them this year will be worried economists, who will be watching to see if consumers go on a buying spree that might lift the economy out of its doldrums. If that does not happen, President-elect Jimmy Carter is almost certain to recommend that Congress do the job instead by enacting a temporary tax cut of $10 billion to $15 billion-probably in the form of rebates to individuals on their 1976 taxes...
...again-but he will retain great influence, particularly through his weekly columns in 80 newspapers and his five-minute broadcasts every weekday on 187 radio stations. If Reagan anoints some chosen successor as the conservative champion, he can give that person a tremendous lift...
...reduce spending by a similar amount. Of course, Congress will not-and so it will go. Indeed, the fight has already begun. Congress has raised Ford's proposed budget for fiscal 1977 from $394 billion to $413 billion, and the key budget committees have indicated they will lift the ceiling again if the economy is still sluggish after...
Rowland Emett has had more than trivial genetic lift. His grandfather was Queen Victoria's court engraver, his father an amateur inventor. Emett himself has put wires together and lines on paper since early childhood. At 13 he devised a novel gramophone windup mechanism-just as gramophones succumbed to electricity. Undeterred, he became a stellar and sometimes lunar cartoonist. During World War II, some equally dotty boffin at the Air Ministry decided from Emett's complicated cartoons that the artist-a man as mild as Lewis Carroll's Dormouse-should be commandeered to help build nongentle-manly...